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Interactive and Explainable Region-guided Radiology Report Generation

17 Apr 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2304.08295archive 2025-07-28

Tim Tanida, Philip Müller, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert

The automatic generation of radiology reports has the potential to assist radiologists in the time-consuming task of report writing. Existing methods generate the full report from image-level features, failing to explicitly focus on anatomical regions in the image. We propose a simple yet effective region-guided report generation model that detects anatomical regions and then describes individual, salient regions to form the final report. While previous methods generate reports without the possibility of human intervention and with limited explainability, our method opens up novel clinical use cases through additional interactive capabilities and introduces a high degree of transparency and explainability. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate our method's effectiveness in report generation, outperforming previous state-of-the-art models, and highlight its interactive capabilities. The code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/ttanida/rgrg .

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Medical Report Generation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG BLEU-1 37.3 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG BLEU-2 24.9 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG BLEU-3 17.5 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG BLEU-4 12.6 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG CIDEr 49.5 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Example-F1-14 0.447 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Example-Precision-14 0.461 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Example-Recall-14 0.475 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG METEOR 16.8 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Micro-F1-5 0.547 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Micro-Precision-5 0.491 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG Micro-Recall-5 0.617 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Medical Report Generation MIMIC-CXR RGRG ROUGE-L 26.4 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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